--- title: 'Gate of Hell (1953)' type: 'film' director: 'Teinosuke Kinugasa' released: '1953-01-01' runtime_minutes: 88 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/gate-of-hell-1953' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045935/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Gate of Hell (1953) 1953 · 88 min · Drama · Japan Original title: 地獄門 ## Synopsis Gate of Hell is a 1953 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai who tries to marry a woman he rescues, only to discover that she is already married. Filmed using Eastmancolor, Gate of Hell was Daiei Film's first color film and the first Japanese color film to be released outside Japan. It was digitally restored in 2011 by the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kadokawa Shoten Co., in cooperation with NHK. It was based on the play Kesa's Husband by Kan Kikuchi. ## Credits - **Director:** [Teinosuke Kinugasa](https://cinepixo.com/people/teinosuke-kinugasa) - **Screenplay:** [Teinosuke Kinugasa](https://cinepixo.com/people/teinosuke-kinugasa) - **Original Music Composer:** [Yasushi Akutagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasushi-akutagawa) - **Producer:** [Masaichi Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/masaichi-nagata) ## Cast - [Ryōsuke Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryosuke-kagawa) - [Machiko Kyō](https://cinepixo.com/people/machiko-kyo) - [Jun Tazaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-tazaki) - [Isao Yamagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/isao-yamagata) - [Yatarō Kurokawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yataro-kurokawa) - [Kazuo Hasegawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-hasegawa) - [Masao Shimizu](https://cinepixo.com/people/masao-shimizu) - [Koreya Senda](https://cinepixo.com/people/koreya-senda) - [Kunitarō Sawamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/kunitaro-sawamura) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.films-sans-frontieres.fr/laportedelenfer Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/gate-of-hell-1953 Film facts: Wikidata (Q862708); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.